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One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to th…

The opening by which the two scalæ communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear.

A shed for swine; a sty.

opping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.

A crystalline, nitrogenous base, C10H14N2, isomeric with nicotine.

Pertaining to, or derived from, isonicotine.

ing to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic substance of the uric acid group, called leucoturic acid or oxalantin. See Oxalantin.

Campylotropous.

See Melocoton.

A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.

Lead protoxide, PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment.

Massicot. [Obs.]

See Melocoton.

nd of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow. [Written also malacatoon, malacotune.]

Any monocotyledonous plant.

Monocotyledonous.

A plant with only one cotyledon, or seed lobe.

Having only one cotyledon, seed lobe, or seminal leaf. Lindley.

The chain of micrococci formed by the division of the micrococci in multiplication.

Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic. -- Nar*cot"ic*ness, n.